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maggie. it was stunning, it was heartbreaking to see. and there was plenty to see. in some cases people just coming up to us on the streets and they say help us, help us anyway you can. >> now that we've been able to establish that picture and we see where you and katie are standing, it is sobering to look behind you guys and see all that devastation. have you amidst all of that, jeff and katie, been able to find and speak with any americans? >> reporter: we have. for a while yesterday, we saw a numb them, including one of the most striking examples for me was at the airport. just after we got off the plane. and there was some missionary workers who were here. and they were here working on a church that was torn down in a hurricane in the past couple years here in haiti. and now they go through this. so it goes to show whether it's political in-fighting or natural disaster, haitians have dealt with one thing after another and they're not sure what happens next. >> all right. jeff glor, katie couric in port
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owe prirks thank you for being there. they will stay there lout the this morning and keep us up-to-date. right now we want to switch gears and speak with secretary of state hillary rodham clinton who is coordinating the relief efforts in haiti. good morning, madame secretary. >> good morning, maggie. >> we have heard all morning long from people in haiti who just want help and they're frustrated that it has been slow in arriving. we've also heard about the many u.s. resources that have been deployed to haiti. you can tell the people there and their relatives watching here in this country when you expect these resources will start to make a difference there? >> well, they already are. the president ordered a stwift, coordinated, aggressive response and that's exactly what we've been doing. but let me just give and you sense of what we're up against. the airport lost its air traffic control system and, of course, it was damaged. in order to get the airport up and going so we can land the kind of heavy planes with the massive amounts of aid that is
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needed, we had to send in a military team to get the airport running. that has been accomplished. you heard about how the port has been damaged. that is a big problem because that prevents us from getting our ships in. we have a team working on that. we also have our crack search and rescue teams from fema and usaid from fairfax county, from miami-dade, from l.a., they're already there on the ground, the fairfax county team has been working, we've got the 82nd airborne coming in, the coast guard has been magnificent. the depth of it and the extent of it is just unimaginable as katie and others are telling you. and depending upon where you are, you may on or may not see the results of this coordinated effort, but we're working closely with the haitian government, the president was safe but many parts of his government are unaccounted for, they have no communication system, we're bringing the
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communication system so they can start to talk to one another. we're working with the united nations which was responsible if coordinating aid which as you know has been devastated with an enormous loss of life. so i think the american people can be assured that we're doing everything question to help the people of haiti and it's not just for the days ahead with the terrible crisis of search and recent due. it will be for months and years ahead as we help them rebuild. >> i know would you have also been successful in air lifting some injured americans with 45,000 americans living in haiti, do you have any idea how many americans were lost or injured in this earthquake? >> no. i mean, the hopeful news is that we don't have many reports yet. we've had a good outreach, it's called the warden system run by the state department, our ambassador and his team is on the ground trying to track downie american who we have any kind of contact information for. the cell phones were down. all kinds of difficulties with impassable roads.
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but we are locating americans, we are evacuating those americans who wish to leave, we've evacuated some of the injured americans. and i want to give you a number, maggie, so that if people are worried about americans in haiti, it's 1-888-407-4747. police call that number. >> the number the president gave us yesterday and we put it up on the screen. >> good. >> one more quick question. has there been any discussion about giving haitian nationals techlt area protective status allowing them temporarily to have asylum in that or elsewhere in this country? >> well, we have as you know many haitian-americans, most here legally, some are not documented. and the obama administration is taking steps to make sure that people are given some temporary status so that we don't compound the problem that we face in haiti. >> secretary clinton -- >> but i have to add, maggie, that we need the help and the
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generosity of the american people. we have a text messaging system that the state department set up, it's haiti 290999. we've raised about $3 million. that's what's needed right now. please if you can contribute $10 will be billed to your cell phone and its heaping us get the food, the water, the medical supplies that we they'd. >> thank you so much for your time, secretary clinton. >> thank you. harry? >> boy this, is a country that is so on the margin anyway as we've said so many times in the last two days. it is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. we've re-established communications with katie couric once again. katie, as i have looked at these pictures that you've sent in over the last 24 hours, what i don't see is a single piece of they have very equipme heavy equipment, you don't see any front loaders, you don't see any sort of professional rescue effort.
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how are people going about their business there? >> reporter: well, i think it's really quite shocking, harry. i think we're used to seeing, for example, in a disaster like the oklahoma city bombing, scores of rescue workers and lots of heavy equipment working tirelessly around the clock to try to rescue those folks. and that has been so strike to go me. as i mentioned in your piece, private is tcitizens and family members are basically going through rubble with their hands, using picks or hammers just to try to get true this massive debris. and i think it's great news as we just heard secretary of state clinton say that some of these official rescue workers are going to be coming in and offering the assistance. but it's been a day, a pull day and a half since this happened, so you wonder about some of these poor people who are trapped and if it will be too late. we heard that a team from the uk.
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arrived yesterday but they had to land and drive here, which a s. about a six hour drive, and it really is a nightmare getting help and many of the people here must be not only in shock, but terribly frustrated. and i know i am frustrated for them. >> katie, thanks so much. we will be checking in with you and the rest of our team a little bit later on in the broadcast. thank you so much. do appreciate it. take care, all right? an important thing that secretary clip top pointed out, it's not easy it getting there. so that while it seems that help is slow in arriving, a lot of is t. is you have to get things in place to get inside. >> the other thing is that picture be lies the fact that it's a disaster. there is a live picture, yes, that is katie couric standing there, but a foot away from there is everything is a disaster. >> everything is in n. shambles. >> we want to get a check of the weather. dave price is on his way to
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haiti, russ mitchell is over at the news desk to help us out. showers will be and that'sour latest weather. back over to you, harry. our continuing coverage, we'll have more of it when we
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no windchill. looking at the forecast, going for a high of 44 degrees today. you know yesterday i think the chill was off. today the warmup begins. 30 overnight. 7 above normal, clear skies, tomorrow partly cloudy. below 20s now. now to sharon gibala in traffic control. it's getting busier. we have an accident on the topside. 795 southbound, that's approaching the beltway with a ten minute delay behind it. another one in randalls town. north charles your alternate there. meantime there's your drive times and your speeds.
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95 only runs slow between whitemarsh and topside slow as usual. subway the new san witch, it's a foot long. baltimore playing a role in the relief in haiti. >> reporter: good morning. the u.s. ns comfort is a hospital ship based here and the catholic relief services, they're both on the way to help in relief efforts. it's on standby ready to go to haiti, the ports in country are destroyed. catholic services in baltimore have sent workers to help provide water, food and shelter. organizations are asking for money which the best way to
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provide resources. for information on how to donate go to wjz.com. a. 20 years old scheduled to be sentenced after bomb-making chemicals found in his home. he pleaded guilty last september. they found assault weapons, 50 pounds of chemicals inside his bedroom and had a fake cia badge and a map of camp david. city leaders show their desire to rid the streets of crime. they want officers to walk the beats. city council president stephanie rawlings-blake joined crime walks in their neighborhoods last night. stay with wjz, maryland's news station, more on the relief efforts in haiti ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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we're watching the situation closely in haiti this morning where it is still very grave as you can see from the pictures. welcome back to "the early show." >> coming up, we'll talk about how doctors are struggling to help haiti's victims after the quake devastated what few health care structures existed in that very poor country. this is a gargantuan task. >> so many people want to help this morning, but before you do, we have important advice if you're thinking about sending money. believe it or not, and we see this after disaster, scam artists are out there ready to steal your contribution. susan koeppen is here this morning and she will tell us what to watch out for. but first, we want to take you back to port-au-prince where katie couric is standing by. we have been struggling to get her picture about up, but she's been there reporting for thaws since she's been there, they've already felt four aftershocks. what people may not understand is that each aftershock is like an earthquake in and of itself, so imagine a completely
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devastated country like this, the ground starts shaking again and people have no idea how bad it's going to be and they have nowhere to seek cover. there are bodies in the streets. it is just about as dire as it gets. and the big question this morning, everybody wants to know, is help there and if not, when is it finally going arrive. >> as we've learned because these aftershock, people are not staying in structures because they realize they weren't safe to begin with, they're going to be even less safe after the structure has been shaken by these original -- by the original earthquake and the aftershocks subsequently, so they are sleeping in the streets. some of them sleeping side by side by dead bodies. >> katie couric's picture is up. we're hearing reports this morning of people turning pickup trucks in to ambulances, doors into stretchers. they're having to improvise to help the victims often times to no avail because there's nowhere to get medical help. are you seeing that change at
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all? >> reporter: well, not in the short term. and i apologize. it's really a huge technical challenge to broadcast from port-au-prince. so thank you for your patience. basically a number of hospitals were completely, you know, demolished as a result of this earthquake. and so the hospitals are jam packed. the one gentleman i spoke to yesterday on the tarmac of the international airport told me there were bodies everywhere, dead people lying in the yards, sick people. and he took his sister's assistant as we saw earlier in the broadcast to the hospital and they stayed there all night and nobody could see her. so not only do you have the problem of rescuing people under the rubble, but then you have the problem of actually getting them the medical attention they need. and we've seen a lot of people walking around with bandages on their heads and other situations looking pretty dazed and confused and physically affected by this. and yet they're not getting the
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medical attention they need. it's a serious problem and certainly hopefully part of this humanitarian effort will be a lot of medical personnel who can give them the attention they need because it's really pretty horrifying. >> katie, can you describe a little bit about what it was like there last night? as we were going off the air with you last night on "the evening news," i could hear faintly in the background i thought couldi could hear child singing. >> reporter: yeah, it was really kind of surreal because here you have am. dst this devastation this, joyful choir of kids broke out not very far from where we were set up at our location and they were singing a haitian song praising god. one thing i've been struck by and even when i talked with president preval and he was talking about how challenging and how horrible the situation is, not only did his palace get destroyed but also his home, and
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i said have you given up hope, and he said never. and in spite of all this and this vael in many way as starve crossed country, three hurricanes and one tropical storm in 2008, up to 800 people were killed, and yet there is sort of this optimism and feeling of dare i say joyfulness that you kind of see among haitian people, which is really quite inspiring. but clearly people desperately need help. but you see this in the strangest of places and during the strangest of times. >> thank you so much. we will continue to check back in with katie if we can like she said, it is not easy not only to get to haiti but to be in haiti under these sorts of conditions. we want to get another check of the weather right now. dave is down in that neighborhood, too, but up we can get the opportunity to talk to dave, we will get -- i'm sorry, when's that? russ mitchell.
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>> russ mitchell, yeah. we've known each other for no wind, there is no windchill. it's honestly in the low 20s. that's seasonal. looking at the forecast for day. 51 degrees is the high tomorrow. that's not a bad thing. today isn't going to be horrible. once we get out of the 20s we'll see temperatures move and that is your latest weather. back over to my good pal, harry smith. >> thanks so much.
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this morning we have the story of a group of college students in haiti at the prong time. they arrive there had on a humanitarian mission one day before the earthquake hit. this morning only seven of those students are accounted for. on sunday, 12 lynn university students and two faculty members left for haiti on a service project called journey of hope. those were the last words from 23-year-old courtney hayes, arriving with the group just hours before the massive earthquake hit. hundreds of miles from home, parents heard nothing and could only wait for word about the safety and whereabouts of their children. >> we're hopeful. we know these students, we knows these faculty itity. we trust that they're out of harm's way. >> reporter: but more than 24 hours later, there is only some
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good news. seven families have heard the words i'm okay from their children. but that leaves five students and two faculty members still missing. there is some good news from haiti this morning for joan and steve prudhomme of east greenwich, rhode island. their daughter, julie, is one of the seven reported safe. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> what was your first thought as you and steve have heard about this earthquake? >> pure terror and panic, actually. your heart drops in your chest and you're desperate for any type of news. you have no idea what's going on, where she is, is she safe. and the group. a feeling of unspeakable anxiety. we hope we never go through it again. >> steve, i assume you just immediately tried to reach her on her cell phone. what was that like just calling time after time after time? >> well, we had no
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communication, we sill have not talked to her yet. so we've had no communication other than a little bit from lynn university, which has been excellent. they have kept us in touch with what's going on pretty much every six hours or so they would call us and give us updates. >> and so what did you find out then last night? what message did you receive? >> it was an e-mail september on julie's behalf from the u.s. consulate at the u.s. embassy in haiti and it was just a simple one line, i'm sock, we'll contact you later. and we got that message. a lot of tear, a lot of joy. but of course that's all tempered with anxiety over the rest of the group who we still have not received word about that remaining people. >> this really illustrates for so many folks the difficulty in communicating with anybody who was there under any circumstances. is there a way you can describe
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what that frustration is like? >> anxiety. just the not knowing where she is and what she's doing and what's going on. sglu feel like you want to jump on plane and get there to help her, but you know there's no way. it's julie but it's also the group she's with and all the other people here, it's unbelievable the devastations that country has experienced and we're just so thank natural we've heard she's safe, but it's still really difficult to think that there are other people out there in her group who are still unaccounted for and we hope we get good news on that before. >> joan and steve, thank you so much for taking the time to share yourtory with us. >> thanks for having us. >> thank you. >> and we wish you the very best. take care. and up next, haiti's held mess. when so many people need help, where do you start? when we come back. anddaughter: , you did it. woman: i did. oops. vo: quitting smoking feels good.
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in this morning's "health watch," the medical crisis in haiti, tuesday's earthquake has essentially wiped out the few medical resources that existed there. experts predict a health care disaster in the days to come. our dr. jen fesh ashton joins us with more now. in this memis fear, it's one of the places with the fewest doctors and nurses per capita any lays. >> in 1998, which is the last time we had good statistic, there were estimated to be just over two doctors for every 10,000 people. there are very few nurses there and at base line before the earthquake, very few hospitals with acceptable facilities. now those needs become all the more essential because we have to remember every time we see a person pulled out of rubble and wreckage, there is a good likelihood that that person will require extensive hospital care. operating room facilities, blood transfusions, dialysis, ev
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fluids, none of those things are possible now. >> and none of that stuff exists in one of the websites that i read this morning, the supplies are gone. they are there are no more medical supplies. >> and also we have to remember the baseline population there, 5% of the haitian population is infected with. iv/aids. it makes the rescue and treatment mission even more precarious. >> especially risky for the emergency personnel or the family members trying to rescue someone because they risk their own infection. >> absolutely. and we also have to remember there's a golden window after an earthquake of about 24 to 48 hours. 85% to 95% of survivors are pulled from wreckage in the first one to two days. and, again, once they are extricated, they will need extensive medical care. right now medical personnel are arriving, but they will be in the process of setting up mobile hospital units, tents, operating room facilities, and so that those doctors and nurses can
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actually take care of these people. >> you talk about this window of 48 hours. that window is closing even as we speak. >> absolutely. it does extend slightly up to lee to five days, but we need to remember that the people who come out there have are really going to require a lot of medical support. some of those people may immediate to actually be removed from the island and this is something that we're going to be watching unfold hour to hour. >> and many, many of the injuries that we have seen are still remain up treated. there are people who are standing or sitting or lying in the street waiting to be triaged in some of these make shift facilities that don't have the help or the supplies, let alone the people who are still as we heard from katie still being pulled out. >> surgical facilities, access to operating rooms or ability to actually perform surgery for crush injuries and massive lacerations, internal trauma, is going to be really paramount over the next few day. then you have to worry about infection not only from the crush injury, but from the lack
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of clean water. this is a huge medical catastrophe. >> all right, thank you very much. still to come, more on haitian earthquake, including one family's desperate search for information about a husband and father. when we come back. >> announcer: "cbs health watch" sponsored by advil. relief doesn't get any better than this. maybe one of the most important is centrum ultra women's. a complete multivitamin for women. it has vitamin d, which emerging science suggests supports breast health, and more calcium for bone health. centrum ultra women's crafted to be exceptionally smooth... decadently rich... delightful... chocolate... bliss. hershey's bliss chocolate.
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into downtown through spaghetti junction. can we go back to the shot? under 95. trying to see, it looks like there's ice there in middle branch. >> there has been in past day. i think i see some now. >> you can start to see a reflection. wow, temperatures in the low 20s right now. no windchill. going for a high around 44 degrees, 51 tomorrow, sunny, clear skies and no windchill. now to sharon gibala in traffic control. it's getting busy. we have a bunch of accidents on the beltway. one on the inner loop at providence road. a second accident on the outer loop. another one in randallstown.
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all i don't have typical delays. this report brought to you by subway. thank you. help is on the way from here to haiti following the earthquake there. >> reporter: they are hoping to help in the relief effort. the ship docked and on stand by ready to go to haiti. for now, the ports are destroyed. they have sent three workers hoping to provide water, food and shelter for the people. many are hoping for public
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donations, asking for money which they say is the best way to provide resources they need. on how to donate, go to wjz.com. the manager of a dollar store sentenced to 40 years in prison. the 51-year-old was found stabbed multiple times in the store. she was killed by the store manager. stay with wjz 13, more on the effort no rescue ,,,,
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welcome back to "the early show." i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez. and the story this morning from haiti does not get any better. >> no. for those of you just joining us, we have been taking you there all morning. we have a huge it team that we've managed to get on the ground in not an easy way, but we do is katie couric there, jeff glor as well, they're in the capital port-au-prince. and katie is standing by to bring all of you up-to-date. good morning again. >> reporter: good morning to you. after we last spoke, i just walked around this general vicinity and there's a massive sort of makeshift homeless shelter that people have been building. there are kids living in buses, families living under tarps because tens of thousands of people have been left homeless as a result of this earthquake. and then many people simply don't want to go back to their homes even if they're intact because they're so frightened and that's why i think we saw so many people sleeping on the side
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of the road last night, scores of people all lined up with sheets and blankets and some just in their clothes sleeping. as i was walking around, i met a gentleman named frederick who joins me now. and frederick, you live in silver spring, maryland, but you were in haiti and have been since december 18th about. >> that's right. >> reporter: and you're originally from haiti and i'm curious, what has it been leak for to you walk around this city and see the state it's currently in? >> it is total devastating. really devastating to see the magnitude of houses that are destroyed and people that are walking around and the houses are not saved and it's just bodies lined up on both sides of the streets. >> reporter: dead bodies? >> dead bodies. >> reporter: because many of the hospitals have been industried and there's in place to take the sick and the dead.
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>> some of the hospitals are overcrowded, i've seen lots of private cars with people who are hurt, but there is no one to help. i have not seen any coordinated efforts in any rescue mission because the same bodies that i've seen in the streets the day after the incident took place, those same bodies are still will. >> reporter: let me ask you about that because both harry smith and i were noting that there is no heavy equipment, no real rescue efforts under way with trained rescue workers. very pew police on the street. there's no fire department to speak of. why isn't there more -- why aren't there more resources? we're seeing a u.n. truck just drive by right now. but why aren't there more resources to help the people here, frederick? >> obviously this is a poor country. i don't know if we're equipped to handle any such devastation. whether if the government has
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any, you know, anything in place to deal with such catastrophe. so it's mind boggling to see that there's no coordinated efforts and, you know, i'm wondering what is going to happen in about five to six days because without everyone evacuating the city, you you know, refugee camps must be set up so that people will have a place to go so that they can, you know, be taken care of. >> reporter: right. >> because right now, no one -- literally i can say the whole population is homeless. >> reporter: and are you worried about chaos and crime breaking out, riots? >> absolutely. i do worry about that because people will feel that, you know, you have to survive. so once this attitude begins to take hold -- >> reporter: and people grow more desperate. >> exactly. people grow more desperate and
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then god only know what's going to happen. what i would advise is that curfew must be, you know, put in place so that after certain hours people need to be at home, not wandering around. >> reporter: or in shelters if their homes have been destroyed. >> exactly. because if people are just wandering around, you know, late at night, once the sun is out, god know, you know, what's going to happen. >> reporter: well, frederick, thank you so much for talking with us. we appreciate it. a safe trip home. when are you heading home? >> my scheduled flight is for tomorrow morning at 7:00. i have to idea what's going to happen. i just want to say hi to my sister, linda. i'm okay, thank god. pray for me, pray foefrn else. >> reporter: thank you so much, frederick. anyway, i thought frederick had a compel abouting story and i wanted to share it with you all and viewer viewers this morning. harry and maggie? >> what a sentiment, though, maggie, this notion. here's a city of some 2 million
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people and what presentfrederic is now 2 million people are homeless. 2 million people 700 miles away from the united states that are homeless. and whatever aid is heading in that direction literally can't get there fast enough. katie, jeff is there with you, too, i believe. or the sorry, harry, yes. jeff glor is actually standing by and, again, excuse the roughness of our broadcasting. as you can imagine, harry and maggie, it's very, very challenging technically to broadcast from here. i'm going to give jeff the phone and good to talk to you both again. here he is. >> what happens is these signals literally pop in, they pop out. we get the picture for a while, it disappears. we get the satellite phone to work for a while, it falls out again. and so we've got it as long as we've got it. let's let jeff continue on. >> you see how difficult it is
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just to get jeff and katie on the air with those phones. now imagine how difficult it is for rubbings and planes and equipment and aid to get there. this is not the same thing. this just illustrates the challenge of getting help to haiti. and, jeff, can you talk about the difficulties for you and your crew in getting there and the conditions that you're having to endure in where do you guys sleep, what do you guys eat? >> reporter: extraordinary difficulties. no question about it. can i count on one hand the number of police vehicles i've seen go back and forth. they just are not on the streets right now. the help is not there. one hinge we keep in mind as we remember how unqufrtable we are, there are a lot of people out there who are a lot more uncomfortle. there are people still trapped in buildings, we see people still trying to dig them out. so you keep that in mind and it makes the situation for you a lot easier. but there's no question everyone here is still on edge and they don't know what's going to
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happen next. a prime example of that was late last night, you see people out in the streets now walking. that's because they're getting up and they're going for the day, they're moving around, but last night, all of a sudden we saw all these people walk up this main street we were on, thousands of people. it was somewhat orderly, but they just kept coming and coming. and the reason that happened is because someone had told them down below in lower land that there was a tsunami warning and that the ocean water was rising. this was clearly bad information, but we saw all of these people pick up and move with their children, their families, because they didn't mow what the truth was. and now nobody knows where to get that good information. that's the problem. right now it doesn't seem there's any evidence that's going to change anytime soon. >> because it's going to be about about rumors and stories. somebody says one thing to one person, because there is no radio, there is to television. folks don't have electricity. they don't have a sort of
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central information source. so there really isn't anything but chaos there for the time being. >> hopefully at least from the journalists like jeff and katie who are there that, you know, we can give them some information and keep all of you back here at home posted, as well. jeff, thanks so much and we'll check back with you if we can a little bit later. right now we want to bring you the other headlines today. russ mitchell is at the news desk. good morning. here's what he is is happening. today president obama is expected to propose a new tax on large financial institutions. it is called the financial crisis responsibility fee. the president wants to raise about $117 billion over a ten year period. it is money to repay losses from the t.a.r.p. bailout if you said. earlier valerie jarrett was asked if the administration is concerned that banks will pass along these fees to customers. >> we're not concerned at all and the reason why is that this fee issing for to be imposed on the larger institutions. those large institutions have to cop pete with medium sized institutions and small smugss
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that will not be passing on those fees. >> in the meantime, a special commission set up to investigation xat the financial meltdown is holding its first set of hearings this week. it kicked off yesterday with the grilling of four top bankers. cbs news correspondent nancy cordes has more now from capitol hill. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this commission is modeled after the 9/11 commission, tasked with getting to the bottom of what went wrong. so naturally the first people they wanted to hear from were those large financial firms that got so much government money. it was reckoning day for the heads of the biggest banks in america. >> somehow we just missed the that home prices don't go up forever. >> reporter: commissioner wanted to know why they played with firks sell think risky and complicated investments while assign ulg taken yusly placing bets on their failure. >> sounds to me a little bit like selling a car with faulty brakes aunts thefrn buying an insurance policy on the buyer of those cars. >> reporter: lloyd blankrfein, chairman and ceo of goldman
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sachs, spent the most time under the microscope. he was asked several times how his company would have faired without $10 billion in taxpayer dollars. he hedged. >> i can't sit here and tell what you would have happened and i know for sure no one else knows either. >> reporter: and what about those huge new bonuses all the banks are give something. >> we understand the anger felt by many citizens. >> reporter: the bank ceos insist they have reformed their pay structures, tying more pay to equity, so employees have a stake in the long term health of their firms. russ? >> nancy cordes on capitol hill. thank you very much. some sad news now from the world of entertainment. singer teddy pendergrass has died at the age of 59. ♪ >> pendergrass had a way with love ballads that made him both a sex symbol and a multiplatinum hit maker.
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paralyzed by a car accident in 1982, pendergrass continued to perform, but he had colon cancer surgery last year. teddy pendergrass died yesterday at a suburban philadelphia hospital. again, he was 59 years old. dave price is enright to haiti, so i'll take . good morning, temperatures in the low 20s, no windchill for the day. for the first time yesterday i noticed that the house wasn't cold. 30 overnight. pretty clear skies, tomorrow going to keep it sunny with a high of 51 degrees. 50 on saturday and showers 42 on sunday. monday and tuesday going to 46
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before the earthquake happened, in your opinion touch with him? >> yes. a couple days before the earthquake, he called me and said that he's finalized things to a little touch up in the house because i just came from an intense election and he wants me to have a relaxed time in haiti, so he was preparing things for me down there. >> do you have other family members down there, as well? >> he have my nephews and my husband's side, we have brothers and sisters there. >> and what happens when you try to call? >> i call since the day it happened around like 5:00 when i received my news in the office and i kept calling until today, we haven't had a chance to get in touch with them. and yesterday they told me that they will work to establish the communication line there in haiti. so far there is to luck on how we're going to get in touch. if i don't hear from him today, i will make plan to travel to
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haiti. >> how frustrating is this for you? because your story is exactly the same as every other haitian-american trying to get in touch with their loved ones. >> absolutely. i'm frustrated how and at this present time i have another task to fulfill and i'm playing a different role as a mother and wearing many hats and juggling many balls at once. and it's become frustrating for me to not hearing from him and the situation there, it's devastated as you can see on tv, all the pictures they've been showinging, it's very touch which i. and last night, i was thinking about my husband and i can hear his voice and the laughter we had before and so many good years of great memories that we have there. i'm hoping he's okay.
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and for my kids, we've been together coping with this situation in haiti. >> thank you for coming into share your story. we wisyou nothing but the best. stay strong for your mom, okay, guys? thank you very much. up next, don't let a con artist cheat the victims in haiti. we'll show you the best way to make sure your donation gets where it needs to go. when we come back. wellbeing. we're all striving for it. purina cat chow helps you nuture it in your cat... with a full family of excellent nutrition... and helpful resources. ♪ purina cat chow. share a better life.
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this morning a warning if you want to help earthquake victims in haiti, be very careful who you donate to. officials tell cbs news that the fbi is already targeting one fund-raising website for possible fraud charges. "early show" consumer correspondent susan koeppen here with me to show us how to avoid these scams. i remember after katrina, somebody websites popped up. what's the first they think you should think about if you're
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thinking about donate something. >> really stick to charities that you know and trust. like i said, there's a disaster and people try to scam people out of their money because so many people want to give. so really stick with the charities that you know and trust. we know talking to the fbi they're already investigating some websites that may be scams. we heard from one charity scam watch group that people have already started buying domain names including the word haiti and earthquake and relief and clarity and donation. so you need to be very careful. >> how do you know that the money that you're donating is going directly to the relief fund? >> that's a very good question. if you're going to donate money, you really need to specify i want this money to go to haiti. the red cross, for example, has an international response fund. money from that fund is going now to haiti. so if you're going to donate, say to the charity this is where i want my money to go. >> what are the questions that should you ask when you contact a charity? >> oouf it's very hard to get into the country right now, so you need to ask the charity, are
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you already there, do you already have a presence in haiti, how many people are already there? and if i do nature to your charity, how are you going to use that money, is it going to even get to the people there, how are you getting supplies in. so should you ask a lot of questions. everybody wants to do the right thing, they want to raise money, but you need to make sure that your money is going to the people who need it the most there in haiti. >> are there any red flags that a charity is a scam? >> if you are getting e-mails that are unsolicited, be very careful. the fbi is also warning people, if you get an e-mail from someone claiming to be a victim, people are looking for money, so just be very cautious. and if you get a link that says here are pictures of victims, pictures of the disaster down there, don't click on that because it may lead to you a,,,,
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we're living big. look agent the forecast. we're in the low to mid-20s now. going for a high of 44 today. plenty of sunshine. not a lot of wind. tonight, 30 degrees. clear skies. tomorrow 51 degrees to start the weekend off. now to sharon gibala in traffic control. >> reporter: we cleared up a lot of the accidents on the roadways. the new one going to be on old court road at the howard county line. a crash in columbia, one one accident in the city. 95 southbound slow to 895. there's your beltway delays. 22 miles per hour on the west side. there's a look at 29 at 32 near by accident there and the
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topside jam as where you believe usual. enjoy winter's best snow ever. thank you. in the news relief on the way following the earthquake in haiti. more in baltimore's role in it. >> reporter: the hospitals and catholic relief programs ready to provide support. as of now the ports are destroyed. catholic relief has sent 3 workers to haiti hoping to provide food, water and shelter. many hoping for public donations asking for money which is the best way to provide resources they need. go to wjz.com on how to donate. state lawmakers at work in
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annapolis, the state's short fall at the top of the agenda. local jurisdictions owe know layoffs could be coming for a baltimore-based company. our partners reporting aol company will layoff tomorrow. the governor looking to take on the governor of indiana with a friendly wager. he wants the governor to make a bet on the game this saturday. up next, social net working, how people in haitit,,,,,,,,,,,,
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we've been focusing our attention as the entire world has on haiti this morning and focusing here on the show on the challenges getting broadcasting to you from haiti, getting aid into haiti. but now we want to look at some ways that people have found where they can get information out and communicate. >> and one of those ways is through facebook, through twitter. it has been quite remarkable how some people have been able to communicate under these very difficult circumstances. daniel sieberg is here with more on that. >> good morning. certainly not aez zi, but some people are able to get through. less than 10% of haiti's 9 million people have regular access to the internet, but for those who do, social networking sites were often the best hines of communication. >> reporter: in the hours after the earthquake struck in haiti, fabrice armand scoured fate book from any updates from his family and friends. >> i'm doing well. my family as well.
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thank god. i saw the most horrible things in my life yesterday. >> reporter: yolette spent the day fielding calls at a haitian newspaper based in brooklyn and used facebook as her window on the chaos. >> her mom and her stefr waiting to find help. >> reporter: meanwhile people in haiti turned to twitter to express grief and frustration like this tweet that reads dead bodies are everywhere, i haven't seen one ambulance or any professional medical care anywhere in port-au-prince. or this one from richard morris who own as hotel in the nation's capital. going to be food, medical supply and water issues. decomposing bodies. some of the first images of destruction and heartache appeared on social networks like these photos uploaded to twitter. and this video sent to youtube. the sites have also inspired activism.
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haitian-born sinker asked his 1.3 million twitter followers to donate money via text messages. >> we really need a state of emergency like right now. >> reporter: a company called mobile giving is helping spearhead the high-tech relief efforts. >> you use your phone in a very personal and very meaningful way every day throughout the day and this is sgrus an is extension of really kind of empowering the individual to act on their good will. >> all that good will is adding up. as of more than, wyclef jones' fund-raising campaign has already raised more than $400,000 smop a little bit of good news there. >> how do you people manage to if there's no electricity or anything to tweet is this. >> extremely difficult. and of course a lot of people have larger concerns than trying to get on to the enter sunset. they could get on with satellite connection, some people might be able to use their vel phone, but certainly not easy. >> my nephew heads up a big bible translating organization. he worked as a missionary in haiti. and he was going to facebook.
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a lot of these missionaries are hooked up, they have their own independent source of power, and clearly are using some sort of a satellite link then and that's how a lot of people are making connections. >> coming together like that in a group is very powerful for people on line. >> have you heard from anyone this morning? >> yeah, we can show you an example of something that just came in this morning from one twitter user. you can see it here. it's basically saying currently experiencing another aftershock. they're still coming. had a couple of strong ones yesterday. and last night. very kerry stuff. extremely compelling. twitter only allows you 140 characters, which in some ways is not that much, but in some case it is says it all. >> thank you, daniel. we want to get and you check of the other headlines. russ mitchell is at the news desk and he has the news and weather this morning because dave is making his way into port-au-prince. good morning, russ. good morning. relief workers and supplies have begun to arrive in haiti this morning. secretary of state hillary clinton says the u.s. will do all it can to help. one report this morning says up to 3500 troops from the army's
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82nd airborne division will be september there. kelly cobiella is in the capital port-au-prince this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we understand that fairfax county search and rescue out of virginia has pulled its first survivor out of the united nations wreckage, that six-story building that completely collapsed. he is as stonian security guard, he was in the rub foel 37 hours and he was pulled out, walked away uninjured. it goes to show there are people who are surviving this this who are still trapped. the problem is getting to them and that has largely been left to family, friends and co-workers. with sledge hammers and pick axes, workers hacked away at a mountain of concrete and steel trying to reach their colleagues and friends. 39 people were in this four-story building when it collapsed. three made it out alive.
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and wednesday afternoon, the sound workers had been hoping for. it's been more than 20 hours since the earthquake struck and this building came down. but these workers think they've heard someone calling from underneath the rubble. they think they can get to him, thi know he's alive. and they're just work to go upload all of this debris to see if they can bring him out. the workers sent words of encouragement and the map answers back. he needs water. but he's buried deep. it's a scene that's playing out across the city. >> it's catastrophe. there is no word for it. >> reporter: and at this point, we don't know if they were able to pull that man out. we plan to go back to that scene today and find out. but at this point any survivors have been trapped going on 37, 38 hours. the sun is out again. it's bound to be another brutally hot day. and they don't have any water. russ? >> kelly, what you can tell us about those more experienced
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search and rescue crews who are scheduled to arrive today? >> reporter: that's right. we are expecting to see more. but the damage is so extensive, russ, there are so many places where they need to start digging and really starting from nothing in a it's almost a question of where do you start. which is the first bluilding. >> kelly cobiella. thank you so much. experts say the recession is over, but the foreclosure crisis goes on. figures show a record 2.8 million american households were threatened with foreclosure last year. a real estate tracking service predicts that number will top 3 million this year. and in orbit this morning, a spacewalk at the international space station. two russian cosmonauts began their walk before dawn this morning. you're looking at live picture. they'll spend nearly six hours outside. their task is to hook up a new docking module build by russia
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almost 50, saturday some showers, monday and tuesday with sunshine and 46 that's your latest news and weather. maggie, over to you. american music owes much of its latin flavor to emilio he is
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staff fan. he brought with him a passion a that would entertain the world. ♪ >> reporter: he put latin music on the pop charts with the miami sound machine in the 1980s. and built an entertainment empire with his wife, gloria. but estefan's career began as a young cuban imgrant looking for opportunity. as a teen, he brought his accordion to various wedding restaurants before moving up to widdings, humble beginnings for this 19 time gram amy win who a remains an ardent supporter of children pursuing the arts. this week emilio broke into a new piano and met a group of students with aspirations with their own. >> i want to be a sinker. >> i want to be a sinker and a
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dancer. sxwli want to be a singer oig, dancer, actor, producer, music producer. >> how did you know for sure you wanted to become a producer is this. >> i knew music was what i love. love is what makes me happy. >> how did you you complete your goals and get to your dream? >> dreams, you can never stop dreaming especially in this country. >> reporter: once they asked emilio about his career -- >> do you think that your music changed the world? >> reporter: -- students got advice for theirs. >> i wanted to know if there's a way for you like when you two he on stage and is there a way for you to overcome your nerves? >> reporter: absolutely. everybody even the biggest stars in the world before they go to stage, even they've done it for 10, 15 years, they have a little bit of panic attack. so never lose that. that's important to have. but do it -- you know the way to do it? try to perform everywhere you go. >> reporter: and of course the opportunity to perform for emilio found few shy voices. ♪
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>> a new title for emeal yorks is he now an author, as well. he has a new book called the rhythm of success, how an immigrant produced his own american dream. and emilio is here this morning. good morning. >> good morning. so nice to see you. >> congrats on the book. i know it reached number would be. >> thank you very much. we're very happy. so many years they ask knee write a book and i think this is the perfect time to do pa that. >> can i take you back to when i first saw you? >> you're the way from the begin something. >> 1980s, i was a high school student in miami and we were also excited because we would go to these damageses at the big five, which is a club in miami, and the band was the miami sound machine. >> i remember, that was one of the biggest times there, so great to see people have so much fun there. >> but it was a dance at a little club in miami and look at you now. as you reflect on thundershower believable career that you've had, with 19 grammys and so many
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successes. >> we're blessed. you have to rein-vent yourself. the plan for future things. and when you go through crisis that we're going through now, you have to be more creative. so i think that a lot of questions people ask me, this they will find that in the book. >> one thing i like about the book, you say in the book that your life goal was krael something else. you can tell us about that? >> the life goal definitely. coming to america definitely was fantastic for me. because a lot of people have that question. and i think that was one of the main things in my life. >> to come here and bring your family and get your family -- >> when i was writing the book, recreating the moment when i left my mom in cuba and i knew some of my families i will never see them again. >> and because of that, cause to this country and you didn't celebrate birthdays and you didn't celebrate holidays. who changed that for you? >> my mom said they're having
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such a tough time in cuba, so sad to see my brother being so far away, and when we got married, gloria said we need to be more positive. that's the first time we put a christmas tree in my house. so that was a great blessing that she brought a lot of hope and different view about life. >> she's brought you so much. how long have you been married? >> 32 years. >> had 32 years. you have two beautiful children. your son is getting married. >> blessed with that and so happy. >> what is the biggest lesson that you've learn president gloria? >> the biggest lesson, she went through hard times. as an immigrant, i think we share a lot of dreams. i think coming all the way from the bottom, you learn to appreciate life. you appreciate fans. and success. a lot of people that i know, they are famous, and they're not happy. and i think me and gloria, we share a lot of happy moments because we went through really rough times. >> and one of the secrets of success is something that you have lived by. you've been your own boss, you've taken risks and you've
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always given back. what would you say to people, your number one piece of advice for people to make the best of their lives? >> take chances. love what you do. absolutely love what you do. whatever you're going to spend theest are of your life, if you love what you do, it's fantastic. i have add and they told me you have to take pills and i didn't want to take pills. i i found that doing music is what really i love and that's something that really make me so happy. i can be 18 hours in the studio and i don't feel the tension that you would usually feel with add. >> so much good advice in the book for everyone. how to independent for a the rit thuchl of your success. please get a copy because it's wonderful. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> we'll see you in miami for the super bowl. >> absolutely we'll be will. now here's harry. this morning we are kicking off our count down to the super bowl with a look at the latest high-tech toys for to you enjoy
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at home. there are some great deals on out there right now behind the buy.com senior editor david gregg is here to show us what we need to do to get ready for the big game. how are you do something. >> i'm doing great. i'm feeling good. look at these chairs we're sitting in? >> why is my seat rumbling? >> actually your butt is being kickeded. we'll talk about your butt being kicked in a little bit, but first we'll talk about televisions because that's the most important part of the game. >> this is -- how big is that? >> that is the mac daddy of televisions from panasonic. that is a 65 inch 1080 p, plasma tv, about two years ago that would have set you back about $14,000. $2700 bucking for a 65 inch plasma tv. i'll say it one more time. $2700 for that.
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an panasonic, they definitely have the market cornered. >> 65 inches. dude, serious. >> got to have the smas for it. >> what's the thing in fropts of it? >> that's called a sound bar and of course you want surround sound. you don't have to put speakers all over the room and run wires. the sound bar goes right there, it either mounts above or below your television. and right there is a sub would haver. that's wireless. you only thing you have to plug it into is an electric source. do you not want to run cables to the receiver. so it receives the signal wirelessly. >> and price wise? >> 270 bucks. >> get out. >> i kid you not. >> this is nutty. >> really inexpensive stuff. they want people to go out -- >> it's too bad there's a recession going on. >> everything's relative, right? >> these prices are amazing. >> so that's at home. we're away from home and you want to catch the game, but maybe you're out of state, maybe
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you have your computer with you and you're stuck in an airport. that thing is called a sling box. people are confused as to how it work, but this is called a pro hd. you hook it up in to your cable box or your satellite box, and what it allows you to do is with any computer or an enabled snart phone, you can access any content on your dvr or your kaebl or your satellite box live at any time as long as you're hooked up to the internet. >> so if i'm on a computer, hooked up to the internet and i've got that box back home, that means i can, what, watch the game in. >> you can watch the game, you can watch your favorite show, any show, any game, anytime, anywhere in the world as long as you're on a computer or a smart phone that has web access. >> what's the gizmo to the left there? >> this thing right here is actually the xm sky dock, sirius xm has release leased this, about 120 bucks, it allows to you take any iphone or ipod touch and turn it into a
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satellite radio receiver. so if you have the best of sirius, which is what you need, you'll be able to -- this plugs into your car lighter and you download a free app. once you have it on, go into the overlay, go in, listen to the game, and you can listen to the game in your car. so you don't have to go out and buy a separate satellite radio receiver if you don't have it in your car. >> and that comes as an app with what? >> you download the app and this device is called the sky dock. it plugs right it n. it your car lighter. 120 bucks. >> very nice. >> and one more thing if you're away from home, this is from samsung, this wireless phone is called the moment. >> speaking of apps -- >> exactly. this app allows you to get the best of nfl so you can get all the playoff scores, all updated information, also video stuff down here, too. and there's even an alarm that you can program that will let you know wlp your favorite team score as touchdown. >> i remember years ago when a pal of mine got a little -- it was almost like a beep their
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would send you basketball scoeb. and we thought that was the coolest thing ever invented. and that wasn't that many years ago. >> this is from acoustic research called the excite remote, the world's easiest remote control to use. it's got the instruction book built in, it asks you what kind of visits you have, programs it, special activity buttons. >> so you don't need a 19-year-old to program it for you. >> or a agree from m.i.t. either. and these chairs are the ultimate in home theater seating. very comfortable. these range anywhere from $500 to $650. very comfortable. and they've got something in them called a butt kicker. i call it a digital problem toll guest because you really feel like you're getting a shakeup here. but if you don't want to buy the chairs, you can get a wireless version and you can install them into any chair or sofa to not only get surrounded by the game,
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but feel the game. >> david, thank you so much. >> yes, harry. >> you had to go one step too far, didn't you? >> touchdown! >> you can see the super bowl xliv on sunday, february 7th, right here on cbs. we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. frps ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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it is getting ever nastiest in the late night tv battle. take a look. >> company nap o'brien understandably very upset, he had a statement yesterday and conan said nbc had only given him seven months to make his show work. when i heard that seven month, how did he get that deal? we only got four. geez. who's his agent? get me that guy. i'll take seven. >> hosting the tonight show oig has been the fulfillment of a life long dream for me and i
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want to say to the kids out there watching, you can do anything you want in life. yeah. unless jay leno wants to do it, too. >> cold outside, isn't it? lousy cold outside today. you know they say from the weather bureau it's caused by an arctic chill between jay and conan. >> great stuff. >> although jay's numbers have gone up a little bit as a result of all of the controversy. >> so maybe they'll move him back to 10:00. >> you never know. >> can't keep track. >> this provides a terrific diversion, quite honestly, because as the news of the day continues to unfold, there will be much more coverage from haiti with katie and the evening news team later on on your local cbs station. >> and dave price is making,,,,,
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